Aquamarine w/ Spessartine, Apatite & Muscovite

Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Small Cabinet, 7.2 x 4.5 x 4.0 cm
Start Time: 10/22/2015 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 10/29/2015 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

This amazing dense nest of gem, light ice-blue aquamarine crystals has fantastic accessories. The aquas reach 5.8 cm on this fabulous two-sided cutie. A 5 mm light pink hexagonal fluorapatite is impaled at the end of one needle, which is attached to a far larger, 1.7 cm, tabular apatite crystal. A couple more small apatites are scattered about. Two, sharp, lustrous, reddish-brown stepped-growth, spessartine dodecahedrons, to 4 mm, are aesthetically set on the piece and a few scattered books of pearlescent muscovite plates add more pizzazz. The apatites fluoresce light yellow. Aquamarine crystal clusters of this complexity and richness are quite rare from the Shigar Valley and to add super accessories puts this superlative piece over the top. Value??

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